"Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least."

-- B. F. Skinner

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“I think that there's no question that, in Alberta as the price of oil continues to drop, that there are families ... that are worried about the instability that that brings to the economy. And so that has to be more and more front and centre in terms of the work that we do as a government.”
“I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.”
“When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.”
“Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form...”
“I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.”
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
“Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick exit. It is centered on long-term value creation.”
“Necessity makes an honest man a knave.”

Source : 'The Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe' (1720) ch. 2

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